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Good Morning and welcome to Confessors of Christ Church.
My name is Tony Alonso and I’m one of the teaching elder’s here at C3 and we our journeying through the letter of John.
I put forth the schedule of verses we would go through each week at the start of our series and today, I feel like I made a mistake.
There is so much in this section that I probably should have broken it up into two weeks.
Normally I would just do that, but we have our Advent series about to start and it would mess up the rest of the calendar,
So, we press on and warn you that there is a lot to take in today.
However, I think you are getting used to leaving here going, well, that’s a lot to process: And that’s a good thing.
Today we will deal with an often misused and also abused text of Scripture.
In some ways this text has been misused by those who are genuinely trying to be what God is calling them to be.
In some ways this text has been abused as a way to control or manipulate a people for their own agenda, desires, and platforms.
However, today’s text is meant to be helpful, encouraging, and beneficial.
The purpose behind this famous line we will read is to keep us focused on the greatness of God, the wonders of eternity, and the purpose of our life.
The text I am speaking of?
This text can certainly be shocking and scary.
If we love the world or the things in the world, then God’s love is not in us.
John is wanting us to test ourselves and we certainly see a test before us.
But, are we left without clarity to what it means to love the world, if we look at the verse by itself.
Is there any understanding to what is being referenced to as the “things” in the world, if we look at the verse by itself?
Do we come up with what we think this means and insert our opinions into the text to determine the meaning?
Or has John defined for himself, what he means, when he says the world and the things of the world?
This is just half of the content we will seek to explore.
The other half begins now.
Open your Bibles or turn them on if that is your preference to 1 John Chapter 2 beginning in verses 12-14.
We will then check out verses 15-17 once we have a grasp on these lead up verses.
These are the true and infallible words of God.
This here is an incredible and beautiful section of Scripture.
This here should encourage you, sustain you, and challenge you.
This here should be embraced and held to in the highs of highs and the lows of lows.
Let’s unpack these verses as a whole and then we will look at each group more closely.
First, we see three groups before us.
Children, young men, fathers.
Second, we see these groups being spoken of twice, first in the phrase I am writing to you and then I write to you.
Thirdly, we see different points being made except with one group, the father’s, what does this mean?
One thing that we can be sure of just with a flyover of the text is that it is mean to encourage and strengthen.
This is being written to the church and the people in the church.
It was being written to the people of John’s day, and through the preservation power of the Spirit being spoken to us today.
So, I want us to not just understand what John is saying, I want us to see ourselves in this text and what we are take take from it.
When John is speaking of little children, young men, and fathers, he is not speaking of roles.
John is not speaking of physical age.
John is speaking of Spiritual discovery and growth.
As John speaks of little children he is speaking in a loving and endearing way towards those who are new and young in the faith.
If you are a new believer or if you are in the early stages of your discovery of who God is and what God is doing, then this is for you.
Next John speaks of the young men.
These are the battle ready believers who have grown in strength and determination in the faith.
They have grasped the truth of God and have been enlisted in the mission and purposes of the Kingdom.
They are ready to defend the faith, promote the faith, and actively standing strong in the faith.
Lastly, we have the Fathers.
These are believers who are grounded and rooted in the faith and teaching others, caring for others, raising others.
We will get to what John says about them in a moment, but it is truly beautiful.
Now, let’s take each of these groups in order based on their Spiritual maturity, beginning with the children.
1 John 2:13 (ESV)
I write to you, children, because you know the Father.
First, Children, those who are young in the faith, or new in the faith, have discovered one of the most mind blowing realities possible.
Their sins are forgiven.
Do you remember the first time that God opened your eyes to the reality of your sin?
That you have rebelled, disobeyed, and mocked the God you now love?
Can you recall a time when you were gripped with guilt, not because you were caught, but because you saw your life in light of God?
That you recognized God is Light, the holiness and righteousness of God.
That you discovered His standard and see how woefully short you fell short?
Is there a time that you can recall the wickedness in your thought and actions....
Then realized that when you stand before God, it will not go well with you because you have not just missed the mark, but have aimed your life in the wrong direction?
Then is there a time that you can remember when you discovered the crushing weight of this reality
That you had to immediately seek out what could save you from certain destruction and damnation?
Do you remember the time that Jesus was first offered to you.
That Jesus was first displayed for you to take hold of?
That Jesus would do and would accomplish and would succeed at the very thing you failed to achieve?
Do you remember the bewilderment when you found that this great need was also completely free?
That it was a gift?
That grace was extended to you and faith was given in full measure?
Can you recall the first time you repented and put your faith and trust in Jesus and Jesus alone for your Salvation?
Can you still recall the feeling and emotion of realizing your sins where completely and fully forgiven because of Jesus?
That Jesus’s death was a substitute for your death?
That Jesus’s righteousness was given to you in exchange for your sins?
That your sins where then paid for, atoned for, and crushed with Christ?
John is reminding those who are children in the faith, that their sins are forgiven.
What an incredible, life alliterating, actuality.
Why are they forgiven?
Why would God do such a thing?
For His, God’s, name’s sake.
It is for God’s glory.
God is glorified we when recognize that our sins are forgiven through the propitiation of Jesus.
The result of our sins being forgiven is that we now know the Father.
What once separated us the Father, our sin.
Is now forgiven by the blood of Jesus.
Thus now uniting us with the Father!
We can now know Father, speak to the Father, and have fellowship with the Father, because of Jesus!
This is what every believer must recognize and come to know, trust, and understand.
This is where we start as newborns in the faith.
This is our first cry, our first words, our first steps.
I love that John used this type of illustration to help us understand as thinking of ourselves as little children is so beautiful.
Think of the joy a child has when discovering something amazing or incredible.
Think of the joy a child has when finding their Dad or Mom after losing sight of them?
Now, think of the joy we had when we first truly understood our sins were forgiven and we are in fellowship with God.
This is a joy, a celebration, an excitement, that we must never forget and never lose sight of.
John is telling those who are new in the faith to remember what brought you to the faith in the first place.
John is telling us of the Gospel.
The greatness of God, the sinfulness of man, the separation from God that this causes, and the solution that is found in Jesus alone.
How many of us need that reminder this morning, that our sins are forgiven?
How many need to remember that we know the Father and are with the Father?
How many remember that child-like faith and how wonderful it is?
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